From the Archives Pioneer in Female Ministry Catherine Booth's firm conviction that women should be free to preach the gospel forever shaped The
Salvation Army's openness to female officers. By Christine Parkin, from issue 26: William & Catherine Booth
In the early months of 1878, a young woman of 18 and her colleague arrived at the train station in Barnsley, Yorkshire, embarked on a crusade. She had been sent by William Booth to open a branch of the Christian Mission in this mining town. Here work was tough—when it was available—and people were inured to the frequent changes of fortune that industrialization brings. More …
Christianity Fever Through a century of political turmoil and disillusionment, waves of Chinese intellectuals have come to Christ. by Stacey Bieler and Carol Lee Hamrin
As for Me and My House The house-church movement survived persecution and created a surge of Christian growth across China. by Tony Lambert
Worshiping Under the Communist Eye The birth of an "official" Chinese church helped Christianity thrive in public under political constraints. by Ryan Dunch
From Foreign Mission to Chinese Church Missionaries in China were hampered by pressures from home, mistakes in leadership, and identification with the West, but they planted the seeds that would someday yield an astonishing harvest. By Daniel H. Bays
Person of the Week
Activists Catherine Booth Compelling preacher and co-founder of the Salvation Army
"If the Word of God forbids female ministry, we would ask how it happens that so many of the most devoted handmaidens of the Lord have felt constrained by the Holy Ghost to exercise it? … The Word and the Spirit cannot contradict each other." —Catherine Booth
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